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Welcome to the Paradox Community Wish List - Page 1. To have your own wishes added to the list click here.


Data Model Designer/Dialog
  • Data Model Changes/Additions
    • Child table able to have more than one parent table in data model (as distinct from multiple instances of child table, one per parent). Whilst this would be a case of caveat emptor there are cases where this would be really useful (and save time coding for filters or whatever).

      Only child records which matched all currently selected parent records would show. An example would be one table with three separate lookup tables (for three different fields), all four tables would be showing simultaneously and the user would scroll any of the three masters to generate a respectively changed view in the child. To take a very simple example say we have a table with fields: Name, Birth State, Sex, Occupation. Each of the latter 3 fields could have lookup tables. By having each of these 3 lookup tables designated in the data model of a "cell-viewer" form as masters of the main table, and by displaying all four tables simultaneously on that form, a user can easily scroll to his particular desired list of people. E.g. Californian Hermaphrodite Surgeons or Texan Female Executioners. Note that this approach to displaying that data is not what would always be most suitable, but for that style of display this approach would be nice to have.
  • Data SuperModel
    • Let's say you have a "master" form which displays info from a master table. Let's say you have a series of "detail" forms which can be shown simultaneously with the master form and which contain info on a series of detail tables of the master table. At present when any detail form is shown simultaneously with the master form one has to use code to synchronise the tables on the different forms.

      What I thought might be good is if in the same way that each form has its own data model that there might exist an analogous structure which I called a data "supermodel" (no not a la catwalk) which could apply to a form as a master form and relate to all possible detail forms whereby one could diagrammatically designate a link between a table on the master form and the detail form's master table (which would be a detail table of the master form's table), specifying the actual link in the same way as table links are specified in a form's data model.

      So what would be shown on the diagrammatic would be forms rather than tables but one could drill down to the tables and actual links. This type of facility would have saved me time, but maybe my app is just too off the planet. Whaddya think?
  • Display Options
    • collapse all, expand all option
    • line up tables automatically so I don't get all my tables overlapping
    • needs several graphical views
    • better link info
    • put back the path of the tables once they are in the data model
  • General
    • Replace/remove Visual Database Designer
    • Datamodel designer which combines the 'good' features of v.7 and v.9+

      The automatic linking display of v.7 was something else :o). From memory, I haven't used v.7 in 18 months, it lacked the ability to show fields and indices of the tables.

      With v.9, and v.10 as I've been told, there are three levels of display for tables but when one first opens the datamodel designer one is confronted with the 'stack of cards' approach. What if there are more than just half a dozen tables involved. Arrgh!!!
  • Path/Alias Usage
    • When adding a table, I choose an alias, then a subdirectory beneath that alias, and the table gets adds by full path, but if I type in the alias and sub directory it works correctly: :work:\myData stays the same when typed in, but changes to the parsed out full path if selected.

Design Mode Features
  • Alignment
    • align object to page center
    • align object to page middle
    • align object to container center
    • align object to container middle
  • Grid
    • Snap to Grid as fixed option
  • Groups
    • Let me add an object(s) to an existing group of objects. Now, I must ungroup everything then regroup to include new objects. This is especially irksome when there is ObjectPAL on the group because ungrouping deletes the code.
  • Object Selection
    • Allow one to select an object and its container at the same time, just as you can select multiple objects within the same container at the same time (related to above alignment wishes).
    • Be able to select all like objects within all possible levels of containership easily. E.g. select a field label object, then right click it or whatever, and be given the option to select all field label objects within each successively increasing level of containership that exists. Boy would that save time!
  • Properties Dialog
    • Have the Properties dialog open in the position where it was last used....instead of always in the top left corner
  • Size and Position
    • View Size and Position as fixed option
  • Zoom
    • zoom custom percentage

Page 2: Miscellaneous
Page 3: Object Additions/Improvements
Page 4: Object Explorer, ObjectPAL Editor and Debugging Tools
Page 5: ObjectPAL Language
Page 6: Printing and Reports and Project Viewer
Page 7: Tools/Experts/Interactive Features
Page 8: General (or Miscellaneous 2)
Page 9: Suite Integration


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